# eval-audit

Audits LLM evaluation pipelines to uncover unvalidated judges, vanity metrics, and flawed error analysis. Best used when reviewing existing evals.

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- Author: ai-evals-course
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/ai-evals-course/evals-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill inspects your LLM evaluation setup and outputs an impact-prioritized report detailing concrete fixes. It checks whether failure modes come from observed trace data rather than abstract brainstorming, and flags surface-level metrics like ROUGE, BERTScore, or Likert scales that blur pass/fail thresholds.

To run diagnostic checks, it needs access to eval artifacts such as traces, judge prompts, or labeled datasets. It pulls them directly through observability MCP servers (Phoenix, Braintrust, LangSmith, Truesight) or reads local CSV files, JSON trace dumps, notebooks, and evaluation scripts.

Running this tool is useless if your goal is writing an evaluator prompt from scratch; it inspects pipelines rather than drafting them. It will immediately penalize raw accuracy metrics when class imbalance hides failed detections, requiring TPR and TNR tracking instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ai-evals-course/evals-skills --skill eval-audit -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/eval-audit/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ai-evals-course/evals-skills --skill eval-audit -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ai-evals-course/evals-skills --skill eval-audit -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install ai-evals-course/evals-skills eval-audit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ai-evals-course/evals-skills --skill eval-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/ai-evals-course/evals-skills --path skills/eval-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ai-evals-course/evals-skills --skill eval-audit -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/ai-evals-course/evals-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/eval-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit LLM evaluation pipelines for missing error analysis
- flag unvalidated LLM judges and data leakage across splits
- replace Likert scales with explicit binary pass/fail criteria
- identify misleading raw accuracy in imbalanced test sets

## Example prompts
- Audit our evaluation pipeline using the traces exported in traces.json.
- Inspect our judge prompts in eval_config.yaml and flag any unvalidated metrics.
- Connect to LangSmith to check whether our evaluators measure real failure modes.

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---
name: eval-audit
description: >
  Audit an LLM eval pipeline and surface problems: missing error analysis,
  unvalidated judges, vanity metrics, etc. Use when
  inheriting an eval system, when unsure whether evals are trustworthy, or as a
  starting point when no eval infrastructure exists. Do NOT use when the goal
  is to build a new evaluator from scratch (use error-discovery,
  write-judge-prompt, or validate-evaluator instead).
---

# Eval Audit

Inspect an LLM eval pipeline and produce a prioritized list of problems with concrete next steps.

## Overview

1. Gather eval artifacts: traces, evaluator configs, judge prompts, labeled data, metrics dashboards
2. Run diagnostic checks across six areas
3. Produce a findings report ordered by impact, with each finding linking to a fix

## Prerequisites

Access to eval artifacts (traces, evaluator configs, judge prompts, labeled data) via an observability MCP server or local files. If none exist, skip to "No Eval Infrastructure."

## Connecting to Eval Infrastructure

Check whether the user has an observability MCP server connected (Phoenix, Braintrust, LangSmith, Truesight or similar). If available, use it to pull traces, evaluator definitions, and experiment results. If not, ask for local files: CSVs, JSON trace exports, notebooks, or evaluation scripts.

## Diagnostic Checks

Work through each area below. Inspect available artifacts, determine whether the problem exists, and record a finding if it does.

Prioritize findings by impact on the user's product. Present the most impactful findings first.

### 1. Error Analysis

**Check:** Has the user done systematic error analysis on real or synthetic traces?

Look for: labeled trace datasets, failure category definitions, notes from trace review. If evaluators exist but no documented failure categories, error analysis was likely skipped.

**Finding if missing:** Evaluators built without error analysis measure generic qualities ("helpfulness", "coherence") instead of actual failure modes. Start with `error-discovery`, or `generate-synthetic-data` first if no traces exist.

See: [Your AI Product Needs Evals](https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/index.html), [LLM Evals FAQ](https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq/)

**Check:** Were failure categories brainstormed or observed?

Generic labels borrowed from research ("hallucination score", "toxicity", "coherence") suggest brainstorming. Application-grounded categories ("missing query constraints", "wrong client tone", "fabricated property features") suggest observation.

**Finding if brainstormed:** Generic categories miss application-specific failures and produce evaluators that score well on paper but miss real problems. Re-do with `error-discovery`, starting from traces.

See: [Who Validates the Validators?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12272)
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